Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium Series for Winter-Spring 2004 American Empire? Meetings are on Mondays 2:00pm to 5:30pm in the History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Empire versus Nation-States? 2 February 1 March Michael Mann Ellen Wood Department of Sociology UCLA Author of Empire of Capital London Is the New US Imperialism Economically Driven? Co-sponsored with Department of Geography David Harvey Department of Anthropology CUNY Discussant: Robert Brenner, Department of History, UCLA 15 March Cyrus Bina Department of Economics University of Minnesota 12 April Oil and Empire Michael Klare Michael Watts Peace and World Security Studies Hampshire College Department of Geography UC Berkeley Militarism and Empire Carl Boggs Chalmers Johnson Department of Humanities National University Author of Sorrows of Empire San Diego The Bush Offensive: American Nationalism or Grand Strategy? 3 May Anatol Lieven Walter Russell Mead Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Council on Foreign Relations New York 7 June US Foreign Policy Today: Continuity or Discontinuity? Andrew Bacevich Department of International Relations Boston University Discussants: Ronald Steel, School of International Relations, USC Marc Trachtenberg, Department of Political Science, UCLA CENTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Robert Brenner, Director • Perry Anderson, Assistant Director Richard Ashcraft (1938-1995) • Ivan Berend • Rogers Brubaker • Saul Friedländer • Carlo Ginzburg • Michael Mann • Carole Pateman • Maurice Zeitlin Tom Mertes, Administrator The Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, 4355G Public Policy Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Phone: (310) 206-5675. Fax: (310) 206-4453. E-mail: Mertes@ucla.edu, World Wide Web: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/cstch